Shingle and shingle strip



Oct. 5,1926. 1,602,007

' A. c. FISCHER SHINGLE AND SHINGLE STRIP Filed Jan. 0, 1922;

a, Q 1 I W X m'vENToR 'TORNEY Patented Oct. 5, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT c. FISCHER, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHINGLE AND SHINGLE STRIP.

Application filed January 30, 1922. Serial No. 532,720.

Heretofore, in composition strip shingles,

either in slabs or continuous strips, it has moisture penetrating beyond to the sheathing boards. In this manner the shingle eflect and a waterproof understructure are secured.

Other methods consist of defining printed lines or other convenient methods, spaces simulating shingles, but these methods heretofore have not given the heavy roof effects and have always required an extension as a waterproof foundation.

The herein described invention consists of a roofing strip which in its simplest form is formed into shingle areas, and along the edges of the areas the material is bent upon itself, creating a lower level than the raised area and by folding the adjacent section, creating a shingle area, and folding the material upon itself the lower level forms a channel and at the same time there is no break in the roofing material. Adjacent areas may thus be made into rectangular or other pattern shingle areas, and by means of folding the material upon itself a series of shingle effects may be secured without. cutting 01' imprinting the roofing, and a heavy appearance is lent to the roofing after it is formed.

The advantage is primarily a heavy roofing effect. Secondly, there is no loss of roofing material or cutting necessary, ex-- cept along horizontal lines. Thirdly, alternate layers can be placed one above the other, having the channels of successive layers lie midway between two adjacent chan nels ofthe preceding layer, thus obtaining a beautiful heavy shingle efiect.

The-folding of the material upon itself 'is best effected after having had placed thereon the slate, or other suitable finishing material; but it can readily be understood -that this roofing material may be so shaped out of materials which do not require grit or slate surfacing materials. Also grit or slate surfacing material may, be placed on the shingle areas after the same are formed, thus leaving the channels without the, finlshing material, obtaining different roofing effects.

Various methods of folding the shingle area upon itself may be devised,'and by laying successive layers a heavy roofing effect is secured with considerable less material than is at present necessary to obtain similar effects.

It is not necessary at all times to fold the material so that a channel is effected in order to secure the desi ed efiect. A number of effects may be se ured, especially in the hexagon shape, by folding the shingle area in a hexagon pattern upon .a lower stratum of preceding hexagon shaped areas, so that there would be only one fold upon itself on either side. of the shingle or upon two of its diagonal edges.

Likewise, effects may be secured in which the shingle area is cut in other forms, such as, a T shape, in which the stem of the T may be permitted to shape itself into the channel by slightly indenting the connecting point with the main shingle area by slots, permitting the depressing of the edges of the T stem into the channels of the preceding layer, thus giving a beautiful bent efiect on the T stem and allowing a part of the shingle area to fit downover the preceding channels, thus waterproofing the overlapping edges.

Again the channels formed between the shingle areas may be wide spaced channels, thus simulating the wide spaced efiects, or the shingle areas may be diamond shaped and two'of the edges of the diamond shape folded upon a preceding connecting series of diamond shaped areas, thus forming the outline of the diamond shape of the preceding area by folding the succeeding series back upon it, the upper and lower edges being cut to pattern.

The invention can best be understood by referring to Figure 1, which represents'a perspective ofa portion of roofing strip, with depressed channels between the shlngle areas, caused by folding two of the edgesof the shingle area upon a depressed area, which becomes the channel separating the shingle areas.

This strip may be formed in two or more shingle areas, or in a continuous strip of shingle areas.

in which the shingle area is depressed and a. ridge is formed between the shingle areas, separating the areas, so that when placed in staggered relation in succeeding layers a shingle effect is secured. The, depressed shingle areas are formed by forming a dividing ridge and folding its edges upon the depressed shingle areas.

In Figure 3 is shown a perspective view of a shingle strip in which the shingle areas have been cut to form Ts and which shingle areas are separated from each other by depressing an intermediate area by folding two of the edges of the shingle area of the .great er bulk upon themselves, thus forming channels between the large areas of the shingles with a depending projection forming the stem of the letter T, which when laid in s'uc-. cessive layers the stem is inserted in the channels by depressing its edges along the slots, as shown at the connecting point between the stem and the main shingle area. This permits of sliding the stem into the channels and allowing a portion of the overlapping section of the succeeding area to overlap the preceding strip, thus waterproofing the joint.

n the proper form the stem should be sufliciently long so that when the succeeding strip is pulled down to the proper depth the lower edge ofthe shingle stem will corre spond with the lower edge of the channel.

Referring again to Figure 1, a represents the shingle areas produced by bending the edges of the shingle area upon itself and depressing an adjacent narrower area, forming the upper bend b and the lower bend c so that the base of the channel e' is formed which lies between two ad jacent shingle areas, extending between the horizontal edges of the roofing strip.

In Figure 2 a represents-the depressed shingle area j an elevated narrower area formed by depressing the shingle area and folding the narrower area along its vertical edges upon itself, so that the folds rest upon the depressed area, thus forming a ralsed dividing area 7' with the raised bend d and the lower bend e, the raised ridge or dividing area extending between the horizontal edges of the strip.

Figure 'represents a strip of roofing so severed that the shingle areas a have projecting stems af-.which are adapted to fit in the channels i, formed by depressing the channel area along the shingle area, thus forming a bend as at b and a bend as at c. The. projections .%af are adapted to fit into the channels by depressing the edges of the stem a;" which can readily be done by reason of the slots is extending inward from the connecting neck of the main shingle area and the stem.

It may readily be understood that the channels -i at the base may be so cut that the stems may be taken from this channel upon severing the roofing sheet in its original cutting, in which case the stem af would be comparatively short and fit into the upper half of the channel, which is formed in the same manner as in the present shingle, but it would permit of the formation of dependingshingle tabs, as shown in Figure 5.

In this manner the original roofing sheet can be out without waste, as shown" in Figure 6. I

Figure 4 illustrates a perspective View of another design of roofing strip which is severed in hexagon formation in such a manner that a sufiicient area is permitted for the formation of hexagon shingles in series, the lower or depressed series having folded upon it the succeeding series of hexagon shingle areas.

Referring particularly to Figure 4, a.- represents the upper hexagon shingle series and h a depressed hexa on shingle area in the preceding series, which has folded upon itself at q the succeeding hexagonshingle areas as shown. The fol-d is made by effecting a bend as at b-- on two of the edges of the hexagon area, representing the upper area and a bend at-cconnecting the lower area and folding the upper area upon the lower area by creasing the folds as shown. Succeeding layers of shingle slabs or strips are arranged to overlap the edges of the upper series of the preceding strip or slab in this design. lVhile there are the'same number of folds the shape of the shingle causes the depressed shingle area to assume the shape of a hexagon shingle instead of a channel, as shown in the previous figures.

Figure 5 illustrates a perspective view of a roofing strip to lay as in Figure 3, in which the strip is out from a roofing sheet, evenly divided sothat there will be no waste of material. The stem of the T area is taken over that part of the shingle area forming the channel z' when depressed by folding the edges of the shingle at the bend b and c. In this manner de-' pending tabsare formed as at -l. which are held down by inserting the stem af in the remaining part of the channel 7:KO:E the preceding series of shingles.

It will be seen that the forms shown in Figures 3, 4, and 5 correspond in principle,

in that in each of them the series of shingle m like members in one plane are formed to extend beyond the areas thereof through which they are connected to the members of the strip lying in a different plane, and these extending members are adapted to lap with the members in an adjacent series.

Figure 6 illustrates a plan view of a roofing sheet previous to being severed formed by forming shingle areas created by folding the edges of the shingle area in such a manner that the fold createsall or part of the outline of the shingle. In combination with the cutting of the strip or the partial said projecting portions being adapted to overlap the shingle-like members of an adjacent series; and said projecting members being adapted'to lap with the portions in a different plane of an adjacent series.

3. Roofing material comprising a series of shingledike members lying in one plane, with intervening trough-like portions integral therewith but lying in a different plane; said shingle-like members being provided cutting of a shingle formation many other \with projections inposition to enter the forms of shingle areas may be effected.

l/Vhat I claim is:

1, Roofing strips simulating shingles,

comprising a series of shingle-like members alternately in upper and lower planes, and offsetting portions extending between and integrally uniting limited portions of the shingle-like members of one plane with those of the other plane; the shingle-like members of one plane having portions projecting therefrom beyond the portions through which they are thus integrally united with the members of the other plane; said projecting portions being adapted to overlap the shingle-like members of an adjacent series.

2. Roofing strips simulating shin les, comprising a series of shingle-like mem ers alternately in upper and lower planes, and

- ofisetting portions extending between and integrally uniting limited portions of the shingle-like members of one plane with those of the other plane; the shingle-like members of one plane having portions projecting therefrom beyond the portions through which the are thus integrally united with the mem ers of the other plane;

trough-like portions of an adjacent series of similarly constructed roofing.

4. Roofing material comprising a series of shingle-like members lying in one plane, with intervening trough-like portions integral therewith but lyin in a different plane;

said shingle-like mem ers being provided with projections in position to enter the trough-like portions of an adjacent series of similarly constructed roofing; said projections being connected with the shingle like members over a reduced area which permits the projections to be flexed into a reduced transverse dimension to facilitate entering the trough-like portions.

5. In roofing material, a series of shingle like members of substantially T-form, integrally connected by a series of intervening trough-like portions lying in a different plane; the portions of the shingle-like members simulating the stems of the 'Ts in one series being adapted to enter the troughs formed in an adjacent series.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this twentyeighth day of January, 1922.

' 'ALBERT G. FISCHER. 

